(v. i.) To move with measured steps, or to a musical accompaniment; to go through, either alone or in company with others, with a regulated succession of movements, (commonly) to the sound of music; to trip or leap rhythmically.
(v. i.) To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.
(v. t.) To cause to dance, or move nimbly or merrily about, or up and down; to dandle.
(v. i.) The leaping, tripping, or measured stepping of one who dances; an amusement, in which the movements of the persons are regulated by art, in figures and in accord with music.
(v. i.) A tune by which dancing is regulated, as the minuet, the waltz, the cotillon, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) His verdict of her that "she danced on the graves of her husband's victims.
(2) In the dance off tomorrow should be Dave and Karen and Mark and Iveta, but it wouldn't surprise me if Fiona and Anton were in the bottom two instead.
(3) The Taliban banned television, music, dancing, and almost every other pastime, from kite-flying to cinema-going.
(4) I encourage you to visit your local care home on Friday to take part in the activities, from dance classes to tours of care homes.
(5) The station programmer of the year went to Andy Roberts of dance station Kiss.
(6) Oh, and let’s not forget about him doing bad dance moves in a video making fun of Drake’s choreography in the Hotline Bling video.
(7) Should it all go wrong, I can't see further than Dance of the Cuckoos , personally.
(8) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
(9) Dell'Utri managed the 1994 campaign – a dazzling phantasmagoria of dancing girls under the lights, while he saw to the shadows.
(10) It's the slogan of an old electronica & dance music festival in Berlin known as The Love Parade.
(11) His opposite number, Roy Carroll, saved at the feet of Sinclair, the County striker Izale McLeod drove inches wide, but in the 24th minute Villa were level, Jack Grealish dancing through a series of attempted tackles before putting the ball on a plate inside the penalty area for the hugely promising Adama Traoré to thump past Carroll.
(12) Saturday's programme was beaten in the ratings – at least while the two were head-to-head – by BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing.
(13) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
(14) A significant increase in the percentage of zymosan-complement rosette forming cells was seen during dancing.
(15) The purpose of this study was to determine the changes in maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) and body composition following 8 weeks of aerobic dance using hand-held weights (Heavyhands, AMF, Jefferson, IA).
(16) She mentions the show at the Baltic in Gateshead in 2007, when one of her photographs, Klara and Edda Belly-dancing , owned by Elton John, was removed from the exhibition on the grounds that it was pornographic .
(17) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(18) This season’s other much awaited debut will be Natalia Osipova , dancing her first Kitri with the Royal later this month.
(19) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
(20) The 30-year-old, whose airway had been so damaged by TB she was gasping for breath on the stairs, told Professor Paolo Macchiarini she had been dancing all night in a club in Ibiza.
Opera
Definition:
(n.) A drama, either tragic or comic, of which music forms an essential part; a drama wholly or mostly sung, consisting of recitative, arials, choruses, duets, trios, etc., with orchestral accompaniment, preludes, and interludes, together with appropriate costumes, scenery, and action; a lyric drama.
(n.) The score of a musical drama, either written or in print; a play set to music.
(n.) The house where operas are exhibited.
(pl. ) of Opus
Example Sentences:
(1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(2) I’m very sorry.” Who is Billy Bush: the man egging on Trump in tape about groping women Read more Trump and Bush had been on a bus headed to the set of the soap opera Days of Our Lives, in which Trump was set to make a cameo.
(3) She has more than made up for it since, building opera houses in China, art museums in America and car factories in Germany, all bearing her unmistakable influence in every detail.
(4) Sculthorpe’s catalogue consists of more than 350 pieces ranging from solos to orchestral works and opera.
(5) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(6) Tommy (1975), an engaging version of the Who's slightly dotty rock opera, was followed by two of his less successful freeform biographies, Lisztomania (1975), starring the Who's Roger Daltrey, and Valentino (1977), starring Rudolf Nureyev.
(7) As a viewer you really feel for him.” Mental illness is not the only health issue soap operas are approaching from a more understanding angle.
(8) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
(9) The room never existed in the Palais Garnier, but belongs to its predecessor the Opera Choiseul which had burned to the ground some years earlier.
(10) This weekend, the Montpellier dance festival and the Tours jazz festival were among cancelled events while the opening of the summer's biggest opera gathering, at Aix-en-Provence, was postponed.
(11) Of the big national companies, the only one to take a major hit was English National Opera, while there was also a big cut for the Lowry, and complete cuts for Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds and touring companies including the long-standing Red Ladder.
(12) You say we should consider the matter of the universality of the BBC, but surely the golden thread that runs through the concept of the BBC is that we all pay in and we should all get something out – and that includes my constituents as well as his constituents, those who like opera and those who like soap opera.” Whittingdale replied: “Even if I wanted to close down Strictly Come Dancing, which I don’t, it would be completely wrong for the government to try and decide which programmes the BBC should make and which they shouldn’t.
(13) The arts broadcaster Lord Bragg said Hall, who moves to the BBC from running the Royal Opera House, had no option but to cut a swath through BBC middle management in the wake of the damning conclusions of the Pollard report into the Savile crisis.
(14) "In our last golden age, we built an opera house with plantation money.
(15) Ninety-one instrumentalists and 51 opera singers of the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, were examined, in order to study the frequency of symptoms from the musculoskeletal system and upper airways.
(16) Inside, Suge is propped up on a mattress on the floor watching soap operas, an overflowing spittoon at his side.
(17) English National Opera's new production next month will be the first time it has been staged in London – astounding given the popularity of Adams, and the fact that some regard it as his most impressive achievement.
(18) A secret 10-day emergency process has culminated in the appointment of Royal Opera House chief executive Lord (Tony) Hall to the £450,000-a-year job of running the BBC , as the corporation turns to a former veteran to help begin the process of recovering from the Jimmy Savile and Newsnight crises.
(19) Disney is producing Star Wars Episode VII after buying all rights to the long-running space opera for $4.05bn (£2.5bn) last October.
(20) Other schemes include a plan for Paternoster Square beside St Paul's cathedral in 1987 and designs for the Royal Opera House.